Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021).

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Translator's Introduction: Happiness is Revolting by A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens

Introduction: The Metaphysics of Real Happiness
I: Philosophy and the Desire of Philosophy
II: Philosophy and Antiphilosophy put to the test of happiness
III: To be happy, must we change the world?
IV: Destination and Affects of Philosophy
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